2010 FINA Women's Water Polo World Cup

2010 FINA Women's Water Polo World Cup
Tournament details
Host country	New Zealand
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Dates	17–22 August 2010
Teams	8 (from 4 confederations)
Final positions
Champions	United States (2nd title)
Runner-up	Australia
Third place	China
Fourth place	Russia
Tournament statistics
Matches played	24
Goals scored	475 (19.79 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Gao Ao; (16 goals)
Best player	Gemma Beadsworth
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The 2010 FINA Women's Water Polo World Cup was the 15th edition of the event, organised by the world's governing body in aquatics, the International Swimming Federation (FINA). The event took place in Christchurch, New Zealand from 17 to 22 August 2010.^[1]

The United States won the gold medal by defeating Australia 6–3 in the final. China captured bronze, beating Russia 11–9.^[2]

Format

8 teams qualified for the 2010 FINA World Cup. They are split into two groups of 4 teams. After playing a Round-robin every team advanced to the quarterfinals. The best ranked team of Group A played against the fourth ranked team of Group B, the second ranked team of Group A against the third ranked team of Group B the third ranked team of Group A against the second ranked team of Group B and the fourth ranked team of Group A against the best ranked team of Group B. The winners of those quarterfinals advanced to the Semis and played out the champion while the losers of the quarterfinals competed in placement matches.

Groups

Group A	Group B
Hungary Greece China Canada	New Zealand United States Russia Australia

Preliminary round

Group A

All times are NZST (UTC+12)

	Team	G	W	L	GF	GA	Diff	Points
1.	China	3	3	0	31	22	+9	6
2.	Canada	3	2	1	32	22	+10	4
3.	Hungary	3	1	2	31	36	−5	2
4.	Greece	3	0	3	21	35	−14	0

17 August 2010 16:30	Report	Greece	7–11	China	Christchurch, New Zealand Referees: Drury (USA), Krapivin (RUS)
		Score by quarters: 2–1, 3–3, 1–4, 1–3
		Roumpesi 3	Goals	Liu, Gao, Ma 3

17 August 2010 18:00	Report	Hungary	10–14	Canada	Christchurch, New Zealand Referees: Hart (AUS), Matache (ROU)
		Score by quarters: 3–4, 3–3, 4–4, 0–3
		Valkai 3	Goals	Bekhazi, Perrault, Robinson, Campbell, Radu 2

18 August 2010 15:00	Report	Hungary	8–11	China	Christchurch, New Zealand Referees: Waldo (NZL), Matache (ROU)
		Score by quarters: 1–4, 4–2, 1–2, 2–3
		Valkai 3	Goals	Sun 3

18 August 2010 18:00	Report^{[permanent dead link]}	Greece	3–11	Canada	Christchurch, New Zealand Referees: Krapivin (RUS), Makita (JPN)
		Score by quarters: 1–5, 0–2, 1–2, 1–2
		Asimaki 2	Goals	Eggens 5

19 August 2010 15:00	Report	Greece	11–13	Hungary	Christchurch, New Zealand Referees: Drury (USA), Waldow (NZL)
		Score by quarters: 4–2, 2–4, 1–4, 4–3
		Tsoukala, Asimaki 3	Goals	Bujka 4

19 August 2010 18:00	Report^{[permanent dead link]}	China	9–7	Canada	Christchurch, New Zealand Referees: Matache (ROU), Hart (AUS)
		Score by quarters: 2–3, 4–2, 3–2, 0–0
		Sun 3	Goals	Csikos 5

Group B

All times are NZST (UTC+12)

	Team	G	W	L	GF	GA	Diff	Points
1.	Australia	3	3	0	34	17	+17	6
2.	United States	3	2	1	37	25	+12	4
3.	Russia	3	1	2	31	33	−2	2
4.	New Zealand	3	0	3	21	48	−27	0

17 August 2010 15:00	Report^{[permanent dead link]}	United States	14–10	Russia	Christchurch, New Zealand Referees: Fekete (HUN), Roy (CAN)
		Score by quarters: 3–1, 4–2, 4–5, 3–2
		Silver, Rolun, Craig 3	Goals	Konukh 4

17 August 2010 19:30	Report^{[permanent dead link]}	New Zealand	4–17	Australia	Christchurch, New Zealand Referees: Makita (JPN), Tan (SIN)
		Score by quarters: 2–4, 1–3, 0–5, 1–5
		Smith 2	Goals	Southern 4

18 August 2010 16:30	Report	United States	5–7	Australia	Christchurch, New Zealand Referees: Vasileiou (GRE), Fekete (HUN)
		Score by quarters: 1–1, 0–3, 3–1, 1–2

18 August 2010 19:30	Report^{[permanent dead link]}	New Zealand	9–13	Russia	Christchurch, New Zealand Referees: Wei (CHN), Tan (SIN)
		Score by quarters: 0–2, 3–4, 2–3, 4–4
		Smith, Sieprath, Hudson 2	Goals	Soboleva 3

19 August 2010 16:30	Report^{[permanent dead link]}	Russia	8–10	Australia	Christchurch, New Zealand Referees: Fekete (HUN), Vasileiou (GRE)
		Score by quarters: 3–0, 2–4, 2–5, 1–1
		Ryzhova-Alenicheva, Soboleva, Ivanova 2	Goals	Webster, Ralph, Zagame 2

19 August 2010 19:30	Report	United States	17–8	New Zealand	Christchurch, New Zealand Referees: Roy (CAN), Ni (CHN)
		Score by quarters: 3–2, 3–0, 6–1, 5–5
		Dries 3	Goals	Cox, Sieprath, Bowry 2

Final round

5th–8th place bracket

5th-8th place classification		5th place match

21 August

Canada	13
		22 August
Greece	12
		Canada	18
21 August
		Hungary	16
Hungary	11

New Zealand	4
		7th place match

		22 August

		Greece	16

		New Zealand	6

5th–8th place classification

^[3]
All times are NZST (UTC+12)

21 August 2010 15:00	Canada	13–12	Greece	Christchurch, New Zealand Referees: Ni (CHN), Drury (USA)
	Score by quarters: 4–5, 2–2, 2–3, 5–2
	Csikos, Békhazi, Perreault 3	Goals	Asimaki, Roumpesi 3

21 August 2010 14:30	Hungary	11–4	New Zealand	Christchurch, New Zealand Referees: Krapivin (RUS), Makita (JPN)
	Score by quarters: 3–0, 2–1, 4–1, 2–2
	Keszthelyi 3	Goals	Bowry 2

7th place match

^[2]
All times are NZST (UTC+12)

22 August 2010 09:00	Greece	16–8	New Zealand	Christchurch, New Zealand Referees: Hart (AUS), Roy (CAN)
	Score by quarters: 4–4, 5–1, 4–0, 3–3
	Tsoukala, Avramidou, Antonakou 3	Goals	Lewis 2

5th place match

^[2]
All times are NZST (UTC+12)

22 August 2010 10:30	Canada	18–16	Hungary	Christchurch, New Zealand Referees: Krapivin (RUS), Ni (CHN)
	Score by quarters: 5–3, 1–2, 2–2, 2–3 OT: 3–3 PSO: 5-3
	Alogbo, Békhazi 4	Goals	Szűcs, Keszthelyi 4

Championship bracket

Quarter-finals		Semi-finals		Final

20 August

China	11
		21 August
New Zealand	3
		China	9
20 August
		United States	10
United States	10
				22 August
Hungary	5
				United States	6
20 August
				Australia	3
Canada	11
		21 August
Russia	12
		Russia	10
20 August
		Australia	11	Third place
Australia	11
				22 August
Greece	7
				China	11

				Russia	9

Quarterfinals

^[4]
All times are NZST (UTC+12)

20 August 2010 15:00	Canada	11–12	Russia	Christchurch, New Zealand Referees: Matache (ROU), Vasileiou (GRE)
	Score by quarters: 5–4, 2–3, 2–2, 2–3
	Csikos 4	Goals	Ivanova 4

20 August 2010 16:30	Hungary	5–10	United States	Christchurch, New Zealand Referees: Hart (AUS), Krapivin (RUS)
	Score by quarters: 0–2, 2–1, 2–4, 1–3
	five players 1	Goals	four players 2

20 August 2010 18:00	Greece	7–11	Australia	Christchurch, New Zealand Referees: Hart (NZL), Makita (JPN)
	Score by quarters: 2–2, 1–2, 2–4, 2–3
	Gerolymou 2	Goals	Beadsworth 3

20 August 2010 19:30	China	11–3	New Zealand	Christchurch, New Zealand Referees: Drury (USA), Hong (SIN)
	Score by quarters: 3–0, 3–0, 2–1, 3–2
	Gao Ao 5	Goals	three players 1

Semifinals

^[3]
All times are NZST (UTC+12)

21 August 2010 18:00	Russia	10–11	Australia	Christchurch, New Zealand Referees: Vasileiou (GRE), Roy (CAN)
	Score by quarters: 2–2, 3–4, 3–3, 2–2
	Ryzhova 3	Goals	Zagame 3

21 August 2010 19:30	United States	10–9	China	Christchurch, New Zealand Referees: Matache (ROU), Fekete (HUN)
	Score by quarters: 3–1, 3–3, 2–2, 2–3
	Mathewson 3	Goals	Gao Ao 5

Bronze medal match

^[2]
All times are NZST (UTC+12)

22 August 2010 12:00	China	11–9	Russia	Christchurch, New Zealand Referees: Waldow (NZL), Matache (ROU)
	Score by quarters: 3–1, 3–2, 5–3, 0–3
	three players 2	Goals	Glyzina 5

Gold medal match

^[2]
All times are NZST (UTC+12)

22 August 2010 14:00	United States	6–3	Australia	Christchurch, New Zealand Referees: Vasileiou (GRE), Fekete (HUN)
	Score by quarters: 3–0, 3–0, 0–2, 0–1
	Steffens, Mathewson, Silver, Windes, Rulon, Dries 1	Goals	Beadsworth, Knox, Zagame 1

Final standings

RANK^[1]	TEAM
	United States
	Australia
	China
4.	Russia
5.	Canada
6.	Hungary
7.	Greece
8.	New Zealand

2010 Women's FINA Water Polo World Cup
United States Second title

Team Roster

Betsey Armstrong, Anne Belden, Brenda Villa, Maggie Steffens, Juliet Moss, Courtney Mathewson, Lolo Silver, Elsie Windes, Kelly Rulon, Annika Dries, Kami Craig, Melissa Seidemann, Emily Feher.^[1] Head coach: Adam Krikorian.

Individual awards

Most Valuable Player
- Gemma Beadsworth (AUS)
Best Goalkeeper
- Yang Jun (CHN)
Best Scorer
- Gao Ao (CHN) – 16 goals
Tournament team
- Yang Jun (CHN) – Goalkeeper
- Kami Craig (USA) – Centre forward
- Gemma Beadsworth (AUS)
- Gao Ao (CHN)
- Joelle Bekhazi (CAN)
- Ágnes Valkai (HUN)
- Sofia Konukh (RUS)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "HistoFINA – Water polo medalists and statistics" (PDF). fina.org. FINA. September 2019. p. 67. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "USA adds FINA World Cup to World and World League crowns". FINA.org. 22 August 2010.
^ ^a ^b "Australia to defend FINA World Cup crown against world champion USA". FINA.org. 22 August 2010.
^ "USA, China, Australia and Russia into semifinals". FINA.org. 20 August 2010.

External links

Official site Archived 24 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
FINA

[HistoFINA_PDF-1] "HistoFINA – Water polo medalists and statistics" (PDF). fina.org. FINA. September 2019. p. 67. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2021.

[name1-2] "USA adds FINA World Cup to World and World League crowns". FINA.org. 22 August 2010.

[name2-3] "Australia to defend FINA World Cup crown against world champion USA". FINA.org. 22 August 2010.

[4] "USA, China, Australia and Russia into semifinals". FINA.org. 20 August 2010.

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